P’unk Avenue
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- 1168 E. Passyunk Aveneue
- Philadelphia PA 19147
- Phone: 215 755 1330
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Creative Connector
I have known for some time that I was named one of Philadelphia's 76 Creative Connectors. WHYY/NewsWorks and Leadership Philadelphia identified this group through an online citizen survey: Leadership Philadelphia has compiled a list of the top 76 Creative…
Biking from City to Shore... lightning or no lightning!
Last night I went for a little bike ride. Mother nature had other ideas. This was my view last night as my bike and I waited out a thunderstorm under the Columbia Railroad Bridge, along the Schuylkill River. Yeah,…
How much does it cost to run Ignite Philly or Barcamp?
Since we have a lot of experience running events like Ignite Philly, the Junto and have helped figure out the logistics for events like Barcamp, we get lots of questions from people about how to handle money and sponsorships.…
Public transit data, APIs and City Government
Julie Blitzer, Uffer and Jariyasunant, #transitapps A talk at SxSW Interactive "Why are you doing this?" Julie is a lifelong New Yorker & subway rider, design geek, UX designer to nonprofits & government & good cause projects, former political staffer,…
A Modest Proposal to Return the Delaware Waterfront to People
Last night at Ignite Philly 6, I talked about an idea that may seem radical at first glance, but I really do think is a very reasonable and dare-I-say modest proposal. I would like to remove I-95 from the…
P'unk Ave Lunch Chronicles vol. 3
The BLT In this week's most recent edition, the P'unk Ave crew took on the BLT. For the non bacon eaters, Matt cooked up some Smoky Tempeh and Smart Bacon. The real, or substitute, bacon of choice was accompanied by…
P'unk Culture
I like being on a team. I like solving problems that are bigger than one person's experience and intellect. I like having meals together. I like having enough people to play full court basketball around at all times. In…
Star Wars Uncut, Uncut
Star Wars Uncut is finished! And next Wednesday, August 11th at 6pm we'll be screening the entire crowdsourced, fan-remade movie on the projector in our office. I've downloaded the whole darn thing and assembled the most popular scenes as…
Slides from MAMPCamp: testing websites on your own Mac
I led a barcamp philly session today titled MAMPCamp: testing websites on your own Mac. You can find considerably expanded slides, notes and links here. I've also promised to deliver a complete writeup on how to use dnsmasq to let…
UX Show & Tell
Please join us at P'unk Ave for a UX Show & Tell workshop hosted by Chris Avore. From the UX Show & Tell website: UX Show and Tell is a casual workshop that’s all about the work, where you get…
Weathervane Music Project & CASH Music
In January of 2008, we organized a Junto on music distribution. Kristin Thomson of the Future of Music Coalition and Mike Kiley of The Mural and the Mint were on the panel. As a bit of a lapsed musician,…
GTFS feeds: you can get there from here (and a free lunch)
As any Mainer will tell you, you can't get there from here. And as any Heinlein fan will tell you, you there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Much to the consternation of both, SEPTA has taken a…
Ignite Philly (3)!
Bringing together great people for Ignite Philly on a weekday evening has been great... imagine what a Saturday night Ignite Philly will be like! That's right, we are beginning planning now for Ignite Philly (3). It will take place…
The Great Cornice Project
Cornices were originally created to help keep rainwater away from the building and as a structural element. I find them very beautiful and one of the rewards of looking up in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, many of these building "crowns" are…
I'm not popular, just popular-curious
The notion of popularity used to be a hierarchical, fascistic one. Stereotypes were developed and fine-tuned in popular culture and broadcast media. We then absorbed them and the privileged among us went to the mall to buy what we were…
Bike Business
Today I looked out our window and saw someone delivering Grid, a new magazine about sustainablity in Philadelphia. It spurred me to write about some ideas that I care about. If you know me, you know I am pretty…
What should a modern library's website be?
Last week, I posted some thoughts on what a modern library should be, and promised to follow it up with a post on how a website could support that mission. In case you didn't read the previous post, it…
Post-Consumerist Waste and the Weapons of Mass Reproduction
I won't bore you with too much of a history lesson, but through a certain sequence of events we (you and I) have taken over the role of industry (since industry totally sucked in 2008). For the purpose of this…
What should a modern library be?
Last week, Ed Tettemer (formerly of Red Tettemer) gathered together a group of people for a charette to rethink the Free Library of Philadelphia's website. A little back story is probably necessary. Ed and I met last year as…